Roger Daltrey took a break from fixing a bulldozer on Friday to answer questions from Who fans ahead of Saturday’s launch of Join Together @ Home — a six-week series on the band’s YouTube channel featuring some of their most memorable performances, including previously unseen footage.
Among the topics discussed was Pete Townshend allegedly working on songs for a new Who album.
“We did have a conversation about something — I don’t want to talk about it because it might never happen. But it sounded very promising and the only person who could do it will be Pete and if he writes it let’s see where we are. But I mean I don’t know what the point of a new Who album would be. But equally, with what we talked about, that would have a purpose. But I can’t talk about it at the moment. The last Who album cost me money to make, and I can’t go on paying to make music. That’s a fool’s game, you know. What’s happened to the music business is one of the biggest robberies in history. It really is.”
Their last album was 2019’s WHO.
Daltrey also talked about whether or not he would ever consider touring with his good friend Robert Plant, which he says he”d love to. He adds that they even discussed a one-off show, joking that hey could call it No Solos.
He also said his favorite guitars players outside of Townshend are Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Jimi Hendrix.
His long-awaited movie on Keith Moon is finally in the script-writing phase and he is looking for a director.
And, when asked about why The Who don’t perform any of the late John Entwistle songs in concert, Daltrey was brutally honest.
“I don’t think he was a great craftsman. We used to put them on there to try and keep the taxman away from him — to give him some publishing money. I know a lot of fans like them. I think ‘Trick of the Light’ kind of had his humor, and ‘Boris the Spider’ indeed. But, the others, I don’t like.”
